Redpath painting sells for £134,000

A COLLECTION of five paintings by one of the Scotland's finest women artists, Anne Redpath, fetched more than £310,000 at auction yesterday.

Redpath, who died aged 70 in 1965, became famous for her vivid domestic still-life paintings, featuring household items such as chairs, jugs and cups as well as her "hillside" oils. She and a group of her contemporaries are often referred to as The Edinburgh School.

The five paintings, which included still life images as well as hillside landscapes, were sold at Bonhams' Scottish Sale in Edinburgh, which took over 1.25 million in its opening morning.

The highlight was Redpath's beautiful 1937 painting, Still Life with Michaelmas Daisies, which sold for an astonishing 134,000, more than four times its pre-sale estimate of 30,000.

The painting, from Redpath's "white period", featured her favoured motifs of the arc of a table, crockery and cropped jug.

Redpath's view of Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, one of her first major "hill town" oils, which she painted in the late 1930s, also stunned experts by selling for 114,000. Houses on the Lagoon, Murano, completed in 1964, fetched 38,400.

Paintings by another renowned Scots artist, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, also featured in the sale, with two colourful works from 1965, Harbour, Antibes fetching 11,400, and Three Bathers 3,600. George Leslie Hunter's Still Life made 144,000 and a Samuel John Peploe painting of Iona sold for 86,000.